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GANYMEDE

Where shall I sleep at night? With Eros, my playmate?

ZEUS

No, that’s why I carried you off up here; I wanted us to sleep together.

GANYMEDE

Can’t you sleep alone? Will you prefer sleeping with me?

ZEUS

Yes, when it’s with a beautiful boy like you. 10

GANYMEDE

But how will you sleep better because of my beauty?

ZEUS

It’s sweet and soothing, and brings softer sleep.

GANYMEDE

But Daddy would get annoyed with me when I slept with him, and kept telling us first thing in the morning how he couldn’t sleep for me tossing and turning, kicking out and talking in my sleep; so he usually sent me to sleep with mummy. So, if that’s why you brought me up here, as you say it is, the sooner you put me back down on earth again, the better, or you’ll have a terrible time with sleepless nights. For I’ll be an awful nuisance to you, tossing and turning all night long.

ZEUS

That’s just what I’ll like best—staying awake with you, kissing and hugging you again and again.

GANYMEDE

You can find out by yourself. I’ll go to sleep and leave the kissing to you. 5

ZEUS

We’ll find out how to manage, when the time comes. Take him off now, Hermes, and let him have a draught of immortality, and when you’ve shown him how to offer the cup, bring him back to serve our wine.

Hephaestus and Apollo

HEPHAESTUS

Have you seen how bonny Maia’s newborn baby Hermes. For the subject-matter, cf. Homeric Hymn to Hermes and Sophocles’ Ichneutae. is, Apollo, and what a nice smile it has for everyone? You can see already it’ll be a real treasure.